Corporate Social Responsibility An Implementation Guide for Business Paul Hohnen, Author Jason Potts, Editor Corporate Social Responsibility An Implementation Guide for Business Paul Hohnen, Author Jason Potts, Editor ii Corporate Social Responsibility: An Implementation Guide for Business © 2007, International Institute for Sustainable Development The International Institute for Sustainable Development contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on
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[pic][pic] Corporate Governance and Performance An Exploration of the Connection in a Public Sector Context By Meredith Edwards & Robyn Clough Issues Series Paper No. 1 January 2005 Preface This paper is part of a major project - Corporate Governance in the Public Sector: An evaluation of its Tensions, Gaps and Potential. The project will provide the first comprehensive theoretical and empirical work on corporate governance in the Commonwealth public sector. It has been
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Comparing and Contrasting Management in the Public and Private Sectors in Nigeria Introduction The term ‘management’ is very ambiguous; it is difficult to give a statement that describes the exact meaning of the word. The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast management in the public and private sectors in Nigeria. Instead of discussing only the differences between public and private organizations, this paper discusses the differences in managerial roles in both sectors. We begin by
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Green Marketing – Opportunities & Challenges Abstract: Although environmental issues has inclined all actions but very few academic disciplines have inculcated green issues into their literature. Even till dated it has not been inclined a must be taught subject in all most all management and related higher education level but one business area where environment issues have received a great deal of importance is marketing. Now a days modern business houses have accepted green marketing as
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initiation and execution stages. This analysis points up three major areas of concern, namely: project selection (includes staff competencies); managerial support (includes organisational culture); and communication issues (for internal and external stakeholders). Out of the discussion, conclusions were drawn which then helped formulate practical recommendations to address issues raised now, and to ward off future repetition. 1. INTRODUCTION This report seeks to isolate the reasons why a recent
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The Marketing Mix Successful marketing depends upon addressing a number of key issues. These include: what a company is going to produce; how much it is going to charge; how it is going to deliver its products or services to the consumer; and how it is going to tell its customers about its products and services. Traditionally, these considerations were known as the 4Ps – Product, Price, Place and Promotion. As marketing became a more sophisticated discipline, a fifth ‘P’ was added – People. And
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of maintenance implementation in a production system. The analytical Hierarchy process was utilized to filter the defining factors and sub-factors considered to be related to the life length and performance of production equipment in the research which was carried out at SCA Packaging Sweden AB. Various cost associated with these factors were analyzed using the cost breakdown structure, an element of life cycle cost analysis. Finally, economic evaluation of the filtered factors was performed to show
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except for several national and government organizations. Because the case study is developed to train Baldrige Examiners and others and to provide an example of the possible content of a Baldrige application, there are areas in the case study where Criteria requirements are not addressed. CONTENTS 2006 Eligibility Certification Form ………………………………………………………………… Organization Chart ………………………………………………………………………………… 2006 Application Form …………………………………………………………………………… Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
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Vol. 4, No. 5 International Journal of Business and Management An Analysis of Investor’s Risk Perception towards Mutual Funds Services Nidhi Walia (Corresponding author) Lecturer, School of Management & Social Sciences, Thapar University Patiala, India E-mail: nwalia@thapar.edu Dr. Mrs. Ravi Kiran School of Management & Social Sciences, Thapar University Patiala, India E-mail: rkiran@thapar.edu Abstract Financial markets are constantly becoming more efficient by providing more promising
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Evidences from theory In recent decades, management practitioners and theorists are increasing interest in organizational culture as a category, which determines the effectiveness of the organization. This sort of "molecular level" of the latter, on the one hand, gives it a unique, on the other - allowing it to adapt to the environment, and employees - to the existence within it, but at the same time inspiring them to solve common problems. It is this circumstance had in mind a Swedish scientist
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